It's a picture of Newton I think. Would make sense to have an apple in there even if it does look ridiculously fake. Is that like the apple-eating room in the White House? I'm only now realising how bizarre this photograph is.

The photo was taken during the filming of one of the Let's Move commercials. They were eating the apples while talking about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables or something like that. The apple in the portrait is definitely fake. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's not the real portrait in that room at all.

Wait, George W Bush is republican? Well, that explains a few things. Honestly, I thought republicans exist only so that when one shitty party wins (democrats), voters go whew, at least the other even shittier party didn't win (republicans).

Well, I have the privilege of an HBO subscription and the routine is often times on their online streaming service. I'd recommend that route, if you have access, cause the quality is a lot better. But I did some searching for you on my phone here, and I came up with this link: http://www.sockshare.com/file/C1XN25LYWLS8888# . The quality isn't awesome and you might run into a pop up or two (hopefully you have Adblock), but it's the whole routine and the audio is just fine. Hope that works, let me know.

Shower me with downvotes for writing this, but this doesn't prove to me that he can be a good stand up comedian. I am 94.1342 percent sure that he did not write that, but rather, it more accurately reflects the hilarity of Bush's writers. The thing is, it isn't hard for most people to read jokes others write for them, and most people can be considered funny for doing so. I would much rather watch Bush do stupid shit, than watch him write his own jokes, because I doubt those would turn out well.

Edit: Whelp, I am ready for the downvotes, but I will sacrifice juicy karma for me to get out my own beliefs.

Well, that's worth thinking about. I downvoted him because he used "we" to talk about who would be laughing at Bush. That's the disagree part, so maybe I spoke too broadly. I'm not sure I can speak to the intent behind usage for reddit at large, though. It's a good point.

Disincentivizing people from posting alternative opinions, preventing actual discussion. It just leads to a majority circle-jerk with people mainly posting and upvoting things that the majority believe.

Edit: I don't see why this is being downvoted. Other things I can see, but this I don't. I'll guess that it is because I already wrote some controversial comments, so now anything I post will be circle-jerked to death.

I didn't want "tasty downvotes." I said I'll sacrifice "tasty karma" in order to get out my viewpoints.The point was that I am also attached to the concept of karma, but getting out my opinions was more important. That was the secondary opinion of that comment.

You shouldn't be down voted for your opinion, but that could be said for the majority of the industry. For example the monologues for all the late night talk show hosts are written by a team of writers, but it all depends on the delivery of the host.

I agree. I just don't consider someone who doesn't write their own stuff as a very good stand up comedian. I feel the heart and soul of stand-up comedy is in the joke and writing itself. Bush could succeed if he has the right writers, but so could many many other people.

Many successful comics came up writing for other comedians. Paul Mooney wrote with Richard Pryor. Louis CK, Wanda Sykes, and many others worked with Chris Rock. Stand up is a performance just like any other, and performers often work together on projects. Even silently.

Mmmhmmm, but that still doesn't show that Bush has any stand up comedy skills. It just shows that many famous stand up comedians today are both good writers and performers. There is evidence of Bush being a good perfromer, but none of him being a good writer, which is the most important part of stand up comedy. Otherwise, I completely agree.

No, I noticed that. My point was that most stand up comedians have the ability to both write and perform, as that evidence states; there is no evidence that Bush can write good stand up comedy, just perform. My points have never been argued, they have just been sort of diverted and downvoted. My argument isn't asinine, it just isn't commonly supported, but I value my right to an argument/opinion, especially a harmless one like this.

Shaquille O'Neal says you won't hear him bashing President Bush in light of an eye-opening visit to the White House with the Miami Heat.

"When it comes to ridiculization, if you can't walk in a man's shoes, you shouldn't ridicule him," O'Neal says. "When I was sitting in the blue room and seeing all the (stuff) the president has to go through, people bringing him letters and a million people walking around, I couldn't do that job."

O'Neal wasn't above pulling a prank. He let air out of the ball that was given to Bush, and when the president tried to dribble it, the ball wouldn't bounce.

"You don't want the president bouncing the ball and hitting him in the face and we'll be all on TV," O'Neal says. "I don't want nothing happening to the president on my watch."